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Emma Alberici speaks to visiting fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change at ANU's College of Asia and the Pacific Dr Steven Rood about the latest on the war on drugs in the Philippines....

Family of teenager killed in war on drugs seeks justice Over the past year, thousands of people have been killed in the Philippines as part of President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. Three weeks ago, 17-year-old Kian delos Santos was shot dead after being picked up by plain-clothes police near ...

Lawyers for the Adelaide woman accused of trying to smuggle around one million dollars' worth of cocaine from Colombia have failed in a preliminary bid to reduce her prison sentence. Cassie Sainsbury appeared in court in Bogota this morning Australian time, and was told her claim that she'd been ...